“Lois Dodd paints with an insistent, sometimes daring economy. She has spent some 60 years making images of her immediate surroundings and each painting seems to go emphatically as far as she thinks it should and no further.” - Roberta Smith, The New York Times
We are proud to present this celebratory survey exhibition of Lois Dodd’s paintings. Dodd will be awarded The National Arts Club’s Medal of Honor for Fine Arts on February 22. One of the most original and striking voices in American painting, Lois Dodd is also the subject of a recent monograph written by Fay Hirsch and published by Lund Humphries.

Drawings have for centuries offered viewers the most immediate and intimate view of an artist's process and perception. The Exhibitions Committee is pleased to present the Fourth Annual NAC Drawing Invitational. For the past three seasons this exhibition has been a showcase for artists who have enhanced or abandoned traditional media to create powerful expressions through line.
Included are works by Irving Petlin, Tara Geer, George Towne, Grace Graupe-Pillard and Anki King. This year's exhibition will pay special tribute to NAC member Peter Cox (1944 - 2017).

Trask GalleryThe Yaddo Six

February 1 – 24
Opening Reception: February 1, 6:00-8:00 PM

Yaddo was the country estate in Saratoga Springs, NY of Spencer Trask (NAC President 1905 - 1909) and his wife Katrina. Left without immediate heirs, the Trasks bequeathed their fortune and estate to the establishment of a residency program for artists.
The six artists featured in this exhibition (Nancy Bowen, Justin Cooper, Elizabeth Hazen, Jane Kent, Margaux Ogden and Dee Shapiro) were in residence at the Yaddo Estate in May 2017. All six have exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. It is fitting that theses eclectic works be shown in the gallery named for Spencer Trask.

In 2014, a complete Ninth Edition of Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos was
discovered in a miscatalogued volume that was part of the Robert Henri
Library donated to The National Arts Club by member Janet LeClair in
1994. The set, given to Robert Henri by Randall Davey, one of his
students at the New York School of Art, who became a close friend and
traveling companion on trips to Europe, went on display in the Grand
Gallery in January 2015. William Grimes in The New York Times
wrote, “It has been 20 years since the complete series of the Caprichos
has been seen in Manhattan and the Goyas at The National Arts Club come
with an unusual story. And admission is free.” The show was the best
attended in the Club’s recent exhibition history.
This installation in the Marquis Gallery will feature 14 of the best known images from this 1799 masterwork.